In fact, if clinical depression was a guy, all your besties would arrange an epic intervention at The Cheesecake Factory to persuade you to dump his low-life ass. Huddled like quarterbacks over their plates of fried zucchini and fettuccine, they’d each shrill out her impassioned interjection:“Girl! Get OVER it!”“Move on!”“You really just need to get […]
Ever heard the joke about the woman who took a risk? Of course you haven’t! Because it’s no laughing matter. Whatever hazardous journeys our female forebears took usually stayed within safe places where they could weep for their lot and no one would see. And today, much of the half the world’s population that’s female […]
I sat in the large cafeteria, teetering on the edge of a folding chair along with rows of other teeth-clenched parents as we helplessly witnessed our twitchy offspring entrenched in the prime time drama of a grade school spelling bee. A heady smell of meatloaf permeated the air. My 8-year-old son, who now stood at […]
Dear New Athletic Bra,I am unaccustomed to your kind. Wires have always been my “wing girls.” Even one cup from a quality under-wire brassiere, tightly sewn with love by the calloused, industrious digits of some hungry third world child, can contain BOTH pieces of my Plymouth Rock.It may take lots of heavy breathing and hairy […]
Twitter is great for many things: networking your novel, real time news updates and juicy celebrity tirades. But what about the astounding flurry of reaction from a couple of tweets porn director and BDSM star Stoya typed and released on November 28th, 2015?In just a few short words she accused her former boyfriend and co-star […]
My mother is a lifelong hair color addict. Though her years of natural hue have long gone, she remains a tried and true, permanent redhead. Despite that old advertising slogan, Only her hairdresser knows for sure, you can pretty much bet your lowlights that at her age, the whole world would attest that there ain’t […]
This Mother’s Day season I wonder: What if those of us who are mothers would stop scrambling to either be Tiger Moms or busy-body soccer/dance/karate/scouts kinds of moms and just cut the job down to bare bones and settle happily into the natural state of being “good enough” moms?Why are we so competitive? What are […]
When you read about what women did in ancient Greece and Rome to ward off unwanted pregnancies, you’re tempted to do a full-on spit-take! I mean, our doomed sisters had to rely on wild dances and fancy amulets to keep sperm out of the egg’s personal space.Ever wonder how that worked out for them?Well, we […]